Since February 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has separated photographers like Renato Rampolla from essential human contact.  Empty boulevards are interesting, at first, for their novelty; but documentary photography needs its people more than it needs scenes of blacktop and fire escapes. In the UK, the National Portrait Gallery, like many other venues that have closed due to the plague, has launched a "community project," encouraging photographers of all abilities to submit portraits that capture "the spirit, mood, hopes, fears, and feelings of the nation as we continue to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak."  Renato Rampolla has done exactly that.Using the lockdown and its enforced solitude, he has re-examined work from his own archive of images, including many portraits of the homeless, people who were already vulnerable before Covid made life in the street even worse. Diving into his catalog, Rampolla combines and re-shapes past work to draw new emotional meaning from the originals... and, in the process, he creates new portraits born of a deep look at himself, his art, and the raw emotion that it touches. Introspection. Unlike some collage art, in which a complication of images is meant to substitute for solid image-making in any one of the component images, Rampolla's catalog shows extraordinary command of the camera and the computer.  Like other extraordinary artists, his command of the craft is married to an understanding of the synergy between image and viewer and his untitled images speak volumes to those who are ready to hear.